..Just wondering what the general experience was. Years ago, I tried a couple warrantees on new products..one a video can, the other on a TV..
The video cam was supposedly a "lifetime" protection. The "mother board" went after 2 years and about 4 of the little 8mm cassettes sized tapes
were recorded. When I went to the store that sold the contract..they claimed the dead mother boiard, made the camera dead..so the "lifetime"
deal was out. I suppose I could have raised some kind of heck...but I decided to forget it..and never buy another.
I didn't have a need to exercise any warranty on the TV...but the big electronics company I bought the TV from..moved out, and perhaps went
bust. If I had boiught a cintract, that would heve been another loser.
I asked about extended warranties for automobiles, to see if they were any more responsible...but it appears they are no better.
We took an extra warranty on a new clothes dryer and used it in less than a year.
You cannot get factory warranties on used cars not bought from a factory dealer; that is why my friends daughter did that.
There are some dealers up here, who have their own extended warranty -- one went by the name of
Million-Mile warranty.
Ten years ago, other diealers started to do their own version of the Million-Mile warranty,
BUT as I wrtie this, the dealership long warranties are disappering, as a different Cousin found out when he was going to buy a different vehicle from a dealer who gave him a looong warranty and now no longer have that long warranty current vehicles sold .
My Cousin had a compact Chevrolet and it cost -- him -- 4.500 for a new engine.
In his Traverse he bought from a Cheby dealer new, to replae the on in which he put a new engine, the standard factory warranty paid for a rebuilt engine when his cylinder head went bad.
It is a crap-shoot, pretty much damned if you do and damned if you do not.
